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No. 698,892. Pa'tented Apr. 29,1902.v

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PUZZLE.

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No. 698,89'2. Patented Apr. 29, |902.

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PUZZLE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,892, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed February 8, 1902. Serial No. 93,233. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, LILLIAN MAY BALBIAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Tiffin, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Puzzles; and l declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. l

Figure 'l shows the cards in rear View. Fig. 2 shows the cards in front view. Fig. 3 is a front view of one of the cards. Fig. 4. is a roar view of one ot the cards.

The invention relates to card-puzzle games; and it consists in the novel devices in combination of a set of cards, as hereinafter set forth.

The number of cards is twenty-six, or the same as the number vof Presidents of the United States. Each card is provided on one side with the name of or with a picture of a President, it being designed that the series of cards shall exhibit the names or pictures of the Presidents. On the opposite side or back of each card is provided a letter, the set of cards being lettered A B C D, and so on to the end of the alphabet, or taking as many letters thereof as maybe necessary. The letter on the back of a card corresponds with the position in order of succession of the President indicated on the other side of such card, and the puzzle is to so place the cards together in a pack that when every alternate card is laid down in succession the series will show the Presidents in their order of succession to the Presidency of the United States. With this. end in view on the back of the card carrying the picture or name of the rst President, George Vashington, is marked the letter A. On the back of the card carrying the picture o`r name of the second President, John Adams, the letter B is marked. The card of the next President, Thomas Jefferson, is marked C. The card of James Madison is marked 1). The card -ham Lincoln is marked P.

of'J ames Monroe is marked E. The card of John Quincy Adams is marked F. The card of Andrew Jackson is marked G. The' card of Martin Van Buren is marked H The card of William H. Harrison is The card of John Tyler is The card of James K. Polk is The card of Zachary Taylor marked 1. marked J. marked KJ `is marked L Thev card of Millard Fill- The card of Franklin The card of James The card ofi Abra- The card of Andrew Johnson is marked Q. The card ot' U. S. Grant is marked R. The card of more is marked M. Pierce is marked N. Buchananis marked O.

Rutherford B. Hayes is marked S The card of James A. Garfield is marked T. The card of Chester A. Arthur is marked U. The cardof Grover Cleveland is marked V. The card of Benjamin Harri*-y son is marked W. The second card of Grover Cleveland is marked X. The card of William McKinley is marked Y. The

card of Theodore Roosevelt is marked Z. The letters of the alphabet are marked on the backs of the cards, and numbers may be marked on the front, if desired. j The puzzle is to so pack or shuiiie the cards that when each alternate card, commencing with the second from the top, is placed in order upon a table, each intermediate card in order being carried to the bottom of the pack until all the cards are played out, the cards as laid down will show the correct succession of the Presidents. The order in Which the cards are to be arranged in the pack, from the topdownward, to affect this result is as follows; TANBY C OD UEPFXGQ H V I R J Z K S L W M. This arrangement is the key. The top card T, Garfield, is placed on the bottom of the pack, and the next card A, Washington, laid down on the table. The next card N, Pierce, is placed on the bottom of the pack, and the next card B, Adams, laid on the table, and so on until all'the cards ofthe pack are laid down.

Without the key provided as above it will be found quite diiiicult to arrange the cards so as to admit of their being laid down alterthe respective letters of the alphabet on their lo nately in proper succession, as indicated. faces, substantially as specified.

Having described this invention, what I In testimony whereof I affix my signature claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, in presence of two Witnesses.

A pack of cards, having the letters of the al- LILLIAN MAY BALBIAN phabet severally marked on their backs, and Witnesses: the pictures or names of the Presidents sev- HENRYBALBIAN, erally marked corresponding in succession to WILLIAM HELLER. 

